HERAG’s second Think Tank was organised on 1 June 2015: Journey to close the BME attainment gap. All the presentations from the day can be found below. You may also wish to read these closing remarks from the Chair and Vice-Chairs of the HERAG.
Think Tank 2 agenda: Journey to close the BME attainment gap
Keynote address: Professor Les Ebdon, OFFA.
Session 1a: The BME attainment gap institutional KPI – our journey, metric and achievement plan.
Presenter: Nona McDuff and BME KPI Project Team, Kingston University
Session 1b: Policy versus practice: problematic attitudes in the academy.
Presenter: Neil Currant, University of Bedfordshire
Session 2a: What makes the grade?
Presenter: Moira Mitchel and Richard McManus, Canterbury Christ Church University
Session 2b: Do we know who our BME students are?
Presenter: Anne Nortcliffe and Cathy Pink, Sheffield Hallam University
Session 3a: “No one can do everything, but everyone can do something”: a holistic approach to reducing the attainment gap.
Presenter: Andrew Clutterbuck, Sarah Flynn and Nathan Ghann, University of Hertfordshire
Session 3b: Ending the deficit model: Black students as active learners
Presenter: Malia Bouattia, National Union of Students
Session 4a: Understanding, development and implementation: strategies at Nottingham Trent University for closing the BME attainment gap
Presenter: Sarah Lawther and Angie Pears, Nottingham Trent University
Session 4b: Include BAME: A toolkit for improving the performance of Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students in higher education
Presenter: Winston Morgan, University of East London
Session 5a: poster session
The role of culture and personality in student group work contributions.
Presenter: Jenna Mittelmeier, Open University
PReSS – practical recipes for student success, student attainment project
Presenter: Jean Mutton, University of Derby
Session 5b: Student diversity and social integration are not necessarily the same thing: an exploration into the social interaction patterns of students from a diverse range of backgrounds at Kingston University
Presenter: Annie Hughes, Kingston University